Nā noʻonoʻo no ka International Teaching Artist Collaborative

Ma o Creative West's State Arts Agency Innovation Fund, ua loaʻa iaʻu ke kuleana e hōʻike a hele i ka ʻaha kūkā ITC mai Kepakemapa 5-7 ma ka Center of Arts and Social Transformation ma Aotearoa, New Zealand. ʻO ke aʻo ʻana i nā mea pena kiʻi mai ka honua holoʻokoʻa, ʻo ia hoʻi ʻo ʻAmelika, Hawaiʻi, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Kanada, Farani, Australia, i hui pū e kaʻana like, hana i ke kaiāulu a hoʻoikaika i kekahi i kekahi. ʻO ka ʻaha kūkā ponoʻī he kumu hoʻohālike maikaʻi loa o ka hoʻokumu ʻana i ka moʻomeheu ʻōiwi o kahi ākea ma ka puʻuwai o kahi hālāwai kūkā. E hoʻomaka ana ma kahi marae (he wahi kapu o ka moʻomeheu Māori), ua hoʻokipa ʻia mākou ma ka ʻōlelo ʻōiwi o ka ʻāina, a laila hāʻawi kēlā me kēia kanaka i ka hanu, lulu lima, a kuʻi kuʻekuʻe paha me nā mea hoʻokipa a me nā mea hoʻonohonoho ʻaha kūkā. Mai laila mai, ua hoʻomaka mākou i kā mākou huakaʻi makaʻala ʻole.

Ua hoʻohana au i ke koena o ka ʻaha kūkā ma nā haʻawina hapalua lā/lā lōʻihi, ʻelua i mālama ʻia ma ka marae. Ua kapa ʻia kekahi kau ʻo “Cloaked in our love: Aboriginal and Māori cloak making as a site for social justice and community transformation” a ua kālele ʻia i ka hana like ʻana ma waena o Aboriginal a me nā mea pena kiʻi Māori e hana ana i ka ʻahuʻula possum. Noho mākou i waena o ka poʻe hana kiʻi i ko lākou kaʻana like ʻana i ka huakaʻi ulana a me ka pena ʻana i ka ʻahuʻula, me nā mea o kā lākou moʻomeheu ʻelua i hoʻokomo ʻia i loko o ka ʻāpana. A laila, kono ʻia mākou e hana i ke kūpeʻe lima mai loko mai o nā pulupulu o kahi mea kanu kūloko, kahi i hoʻolako ʻia i kahi e noho ai, hana, a kamaʻilio pū. ʻAʻole kēia manawa o ka hana ʻana a me ke kamaʻilio ʻana ʻaʻole ia he mea ʻokoʻa akā he mea nui ia o ka nui o nā kau ma ka ʻaha kūkā. 

Ma hope o kēia kau, hele au i ka "Reimagining Art-Making as a Collective Pursuit." Ma kēia wahi, ua kono aku nā mea pena kiʻi Māori a me Tonga i ka poʻe i hele mai i ka ʻaha kūkā i ka falanoa, "e hōʻike ana i kahi ʻano noiʻi ma waena o nā hanauna noʻeau e pili ana me nā ʻano ʻōiwi o ka ʻike a me ke aʻo ʻana. ʻIke ʻia ʻo ka haʻi moʻolelo, kamaʻilio, a me ka pili ʻana he mau mea nui ia o nā moʻomeheu Pākīpika he nui, i hoʻokomo ʻia i loko o ka manaʻo o kamaʻilio. Ma ka moʻomeheu Tonga, kamaʻilio pili i ka hana kaʻana like ʻana i nā moʻolelo (tala) e ʻimi a wehe i nā mea ʻike ʻole (noa) i ka wā o ka launa pū ʻana. Ma kēia wahi, noho ka poʻe komo, kamaʻilio, a pena i nā mea like ʻole i lawe ʻia e ka poʻe hele ʻaha kūkā - kahi noho, mea ʻaʻahu, ʻukulele, a me nā ʻeke kekahi mau mea i pena ʻia i nā lā ʻekolu.

I kekahi lā aʻe, hoʻokahi lā au ma ka marae, e aʻo ana e pili ana i nā pāʻani kuʻuna Māori, ka ulana, ke kālai, a me nā mea kani. Ua hoʻohālikelike ka hui alakaʻi i kēia haʻawina i ko mākou ʻike me nā mea a lākou e alakaʻi ai me ka poʻe ʻōpio (koe naʻe ka poʻe ʻōpio e noho ʻelima mau lā ma ko lākou marae ma mua o hoʻokahi). 

I ka lā hope, ua kākoʻo au i ka hui o Maui nāna i hōʻike i ka hana a lākou i hana ai ma hope o ke ahi ʻo Lāhainā. A laila, hele au i ke Office of Kindness, kahi i hoʻonohonoho ai nā mea pena kiʻi ʻelua i kahi ʻāpana o ka atrium no ka ʻaha kūkā holoʻokoʻa, kahi e hiki ai i nā poʻe piha i nā makana ke hana i nā hana hōʻoia, leʻaleʻa i kahi disco leo leo, a me ka noʻonoʻo ʻana i nā pane ʻino i nā pilikia o kēlā me kēia lā. . Ma hope o nā lā piha ʻelua a me ka hapa o ka hālāwai kūkā ʻole, he wahi maikaʻi kēia e hoʻomaha a heluhelu i nā ʻano o ka lokomaikaʻi mai nā poʻe ʻē aʻe.